THE MASKED Singer’s Davina McCall conned the Christmas special’s judges by sneaking inside a costume herself. The panel were left agog when Star was revealed to be one of their own on

Davina McCall shocked fans and judges with the “maddest ruse” of her life as she unveiled herself as a secret celebrity contestant on The Masked Singer. Her appearance comes shortly after she returned to normality after undergoing a successful operation to remove a rare 14mm-wide benign tumour, a colloid cyst, from her brain, in November.

Davina McCall has shocked fans of the Masked Singer after she was unmasked as one of the hidden celebrity hopefuls in the Christmas special. Host of the ITV hit show told viewers at the start of Thursday's show that Davina would not be on the judging panel, instead replaced by Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

Davina McCall stunned viewers and fellow judges alike when she was unveiled as the Star on The Masked Singer Christmas special, just weeks after undergoing brain surgery. The 57-year-old presenter, who has been a judge on the ITV singing contest for six years,

The Masked Singer' judge Davina McCall shocked the ITV show's fans and fooled her fellow panellists on the show's Christmas special - when she was unmasked as Star.